Checksum_Verification
Nochecksum_Verification
Requests that the page checksum be verified for each page copied.
The default is to perform this verification.
The Checksum_Verification qualifier uses significant CPU
resources but can provide an extra measure of confidence in the
quality of the data being copied. For offline copy operations,
the additional CPU cost of using the Checksum_Verification
qualifier might not be justified unless you are experiencing
or have experienced disk, HSC, or CI port hardware problems. One
symptom of these problems is pages being logged to the corrupt
page table (CPT).
For online copy operations, use of the Checksum_Verification
qualifier offers an additional level of data security when the
database employs disk striping or RAID (redundant arrays of
inexpensive disks) technology. These technologies fragment data
over several disk drives, and use of the Checksum_Verification
qualifier permits Oracle RMU to detect the possibility that
the data it is reading from these disks has been only partially
updated. If you use either of these technologies, you should use
the Checksum_Verification qualifier.
Note, however, that if you specify the Nochecksum qualifier, and
undetected corruptions exist in your database, the corruptions
are included in the copied file. Such a corruption might be
difficult to recover from, especially if it is not detected until
weeks or months after the copy operation is performed.
Overall, Oracle Corporation recommends that you use the Checksum_
Verification qualifier with all copy operations where integrity
of the data is essential.